African Entrepreneurship Chronicles: Rise of a Hohenzollern Prince
Chapter 1520

The Tsar in East Africa

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This situation was not strange. After the Austro-Hungarian Empire collapsed in his previous life, Hungary's monarchy had briefly been restored. This also proved Hungary's economic backwardness, which instead made it a stable supporter of the Habsburg Royal Family—or rather, it did not particularly resent the continued existence of the monarchy.

Austria, on the other hand, had a higher degree of industrialization. Now the National Party, the bourgeoisie, the Labor Party, and all manner of other factions were dissatisfied with the current monarchical system.

Germany had the National Party, Austria had the National Party, and East Africa, also "German," was naturally no exception. It was just that, like the Labor Party, the German National Party of the Rhine Empire had failed to amount to much.

The reason was also simple. With the full implementation of East Africa's Seventh Five-Year Plan in 1931, the commencement of a series of massive projects—the Zambezi River renovation, the North African Railway, colonial construction, and more—was like a potent dose of medicine that directly revived the languishing East African economy.

For a time, the East African economy seemed to have returned to the period twenty years ago, during the first two Five-Year Plans. Large-scale projects sprang up one after another, on an even grander scale and backed by more abundant funds, driving East Africa's unemployment rate down to an extremely low level.

With that, East African citizens were all busy making a living. Where would they find the leisure to join this party or that party like the people of other countries, or other groups that even sought to overthrow the current government?

Dar es Salaam city.

A car drove down a broad asphalt road. It was the short rainy season in Dar es Salaam city as summer arrived; the temperature was relatively warm and

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